Instead of the answers coming, the room filled with light, 

a thousand times more brilliant than the sun. 

It was like an atomic bomb, but it was not a burning light. 

It was a beautiful, bright, shining, warm glow. 

Just thinking of it now makes me stop and wonder. 

The whole room, everybody, everything was immersed in light. 

All the children seemed to be myriads particles of light. 

I found myself melting into radiant being, into consciousness. 

I merged into consciousness. 

It was not an out of body experience. 

This was completely different. I realised that I was not my body. 

What appeared to be my body was not real. 

I went beyond the light into pure radiant consciousness. 

I became omnipresent. 

My individuality had merged into pure absolute bliss. 

I expanded. 

I became the universe. 

The feeling is indescribable. 

It was total bliss, total joy. 

The next thing I remembered was the teacher shaking me. 

All the students had gone. 

I was the only one left in the class. 

I returned to human consciousness. 

That feeling has never left me.

-Robert Adams

Throughout my life,
during every moment I have lived,
the world has gradually been taking on light and fire for me,
until it has come to envelop me in one mass of luminosity,
glowing from within...
the purple flush of matter imperceptibly fading into the dust of spirit,
to be lost finally in the incandescence of a personal universe.
-Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

Discover yourself as a being of light,
not as an aura, but as a pure luminous consciousness
which lights up all things as it turns toward them.
All the rest is just the lamp, the scaffolding, the outside, the wrapping,
the lamp through which God sees.
It has to be just as luminous as the eyes which see through it.
It is a state in which you feel that wherever you walk,
you are bringing  light that shines,
that thrusts a light upon your path,
and wherever you turn you face
you are casting the floodlight of your consciousness upon all things.
And everything becomes crystal clear,
you see right into the inside of things,
right into the depths of matters,
into the souls of beings.
-Pir Vilayat Inayat Khan

I have grown vacant and mighty,
naked and wide as the azure.
-Aurobindo Ghose

I have escaped and the small self is dead;
I am immortal, alone, ineffable;
I  have gone out from the universe I made
And have grown nameless and immeasurable.
-Aurobindo Ghose

I have broken the limits of embodied mind
And am no more the figure of a soul.
The burning galaxies are in me outlined;
The universe is my stupendous whole.
-Aurobindo Ghose

I have arisen from the earth to the mid-world,
I have arisen from the mid-world to the heaven,
from the level or firmament of heavens
I have gone to the sun-world, the light.
-Yajur Veda

I have arrived.
I am home.
In the here.
In the now.
I am solid.
I am free.
In the ultimate
I dwell.
-Thich Nhat Hanh

A woman clothed with the sun,
and the moon under her feet,
and upon her head a crown of twelve stars.
-The Bible

She is light itself and transcendent.
Emanating from Her body are rays in thousands -
two thousand, a hundred thousand,
tens of millions, a hundred million -
there is no counting their numbers.
It is by and through Her that all things moving and motionless shine.
It is by the light of this Devi that all things become manifest.
-Bhairava Yamala